By The Sea Quotes

I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

I whisper like the sea in the horse's ear.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

The sea, the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

But having said that, there's also a sea change in attitude towards media.

The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

Theres so many fish in the sea That only rise up in the sweat and smoke like mercury

Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power.

…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.

I suddenly stopped and looked out at the sea and thought, my God, how beautiful this is ... for 26 years I had never really looked at it before.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.

Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, flung like rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity-light of the world, essential loveliness.

The singing of sea shanties as working songs at sea is a lost art

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

To taste the sea all one needs is one gulp.

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

There twice a day the Severn fills; The salt sea-water passes by, And hushes half the babbling Wye, And makes a silence in the hills.

By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

Fate is a sea without a shore, and the soul is a rock that abides.

I will go back to the great sweet mother, Mother and lover of men, the sea. I will go down to her, I and no other, Close with her, kiss her and mix her with me.

There lived a singer in France of old By the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and rain and gold There shone one woman, and none but she.

We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

But, visiting Sea, your love doth press / And reach in further than you know, / And fills all these; and, when you go, / There's loneliness in loneliness.

All the sea-gods are dead. You, Venus, come home To your salt maidenhead.

Let us lie down once more by the breathing side Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep As if the Known Sea still were a month wide-- Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!

My preferred environment is by the sea or somewhere rural. I don't want to be in a city, I don't want to visit New York and I don't want to go shopping.

move not in your anger; it is like putting to sea in a tempest.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrinking. I feel I am in a prison. I feel I lose my fire and my color. It should be a necessity, as the sea needs to heave, and I call it breathing.

My first vision of earth was water veiled. I am of the race of men and women who see all things through this curtain of sea and my eyes are the color of water.

This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.

When we talk of leaving our childhood behind us, we might as well say that the river flowing onward to the sea had left the fountain behind.

I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.

We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.

Your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. The myths of men are not your myths. Men's treasures are not yours.